Digital Realty Trust, Inc. operates as a real estate investment trust, which engages in the provision of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas and currently employs 3,664 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2004-11-03. The firm is engaged in the business of owning, acquiring, developing, and operating data centers. The company is a global provider of data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions for customers across a variety of industry verticals ranging from cloud and information technology services, social networking and communications to financial services, manufacturing, energy, healthcare, and consumer products. Through its PlatformDIGITAL, which is a global data center platform that provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. The Company’s data centers are located across the United States, Europe, Latin America, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Canada. The company also owns a highly connected colocation data center in the Slough Trading Estate.